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fourseventy··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
The Async I/O in PG18 is what got me to jump from 16
fourseventy··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
"Take home closed book" exam is asking for mass cheating. It was probably happening way before AI too. AI is just an excuse now.
fourseventy··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
Short it then
fourseventy··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
ridiculous comparison
fourseventy··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
I think the 'models have no moat' thing is overblown. Only like 3-4 companies in the entire world have cutting edge models, that means there is some kind of moat...
fourseventy··on Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
Stripes revenue is ~$20B seems pretty big to me...
fourseventy··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
No its full blown communist.
fourseventy··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
This isn't about income tax or capital gains tax, it's about the government seizing half of a privately owned company.
fourseventy··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
Bernie is a full on communist at this point. Seizing the assets of private companies for the government? WTF.
fourseventy··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
The idea that rich people don't pay taxes is a myth. The top 5% richest people in America account for 60% of all of the federal income tax. The bottom 50% on the other hand only account for a total of 3%.

When Elon sold a bunch of Tesla stock in 2021 he paid $11 Billion in capital gains tax on it... That's more than entire cities worth of people combined would ever pay for the rest of their lives.

fourseventy··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
What is the last model you used... lol. Linus Torvalds himself said the newest models are better than him at coding.
fourseventy··on The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Walk down the makeshift tents on the sidewalks of downtown San Francisco and tell me with a straight face that only 16% of those people are addicted to drugs.
fourseventy··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
My company is doing this too. Our marketing team can use cursor web agents to make coding changes to the marketing website/blog/landing pages. The agents make the code change and make PRs in github where our tech team reviews it before merging. The marketing team is almost entirely non-technical.
fourseventy··on HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
Ya but they are owned by freaking microsoft and have billions of dollars and employees to throw at the problem. The outage problems shouldn't be happening period.
fourseventy··on Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision
"tribe"?
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
It's your decision to take drugs that destroy your bodies ability to compete. It's the same as people who decide to eat way too much and similarly destroy their bodies ability to compete. They don't need to make new 'fat person's divisions for people who eat too much. If you want to compete in sports at a high level taking female hormones is detrimental to that.
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
So your position is that men can freely play in women's sports?
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Are you serious?
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
A female or male is not 'assigned' anything. Just because you are confused about biological reality doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
A quick Google search will will your screen with examples of men competing in women's sports and winning.
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Only because they don't practice those events... If men practices those events they would be better at them
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Men are stronger, faster, have more dense bones, have bigger lungs, bigger hands, etc, etc, etc. Men and women are different in hundreds of ways it's not just 'lean body mass'. Men are better at sports than women. Do you even live in reality? Have you ever completed in anything in your life?
fourseventy··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Dude, men are better than women at virtually every single sport. What are you talking about.
fourseventy··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
I go to HN to read about technology and startups. I don't want to read about Israel/gaza, etc, I get enough of that everywhere else in life. But I guess that makes me not a compassionate person.
fourseventy··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
That doesn't make any sense because the revenue is already booked for the sale which has nothing to do with when the delivery truck actually arrives.
fourseventy··on Returning to Rails in 2026
If you make a change to the return types of a function for example you have to manually find all of the different references to that function and fix the code to handle the change. Since there are no compile time errors it's hard to know that you got everything and haven't just caused a bug.
fourseventy··on EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim
"AI Taint" you mean code that is written better and faster than humans? I've been programming since 2002 and I consider myself a better than average programmer and I have no problem admitting that using Claude Code has dramatically improved the quality and speed of my output.
fourseventy··on Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict
prediction markets need to be illegal in the USA, its total insanity.
fourseventy··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Apparently they hit the compound with 30+ bunker busters. So perhaps he was in a bunker but the bombs still got him
fourseventy··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
The early VCs have been in Stripe for 16 years already. They need Stripe to IPO so they can get liquidity in order to provide returns to their LPs. VCs can't hold onto the stock forever, they need to provide DPI otherwise they won't be able to raise future funds.
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